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The article deals with the notion of accident from a wide point of view integrating philological, philosophical and historical data. The meaning of accident is analyzed according to the image of the world in the post-industrialized societies, from a set of theorical reflexions developed by Octavio Paz during the 60's; finally, there is a brief discussion about the possible connections between the notion of accident and the hispanic literacy production in the 20th century, specifically in the field of narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta una crítica literaria de la novela "Amuleto" del autor chileno Roberto Bolaño y de su literatura en general, refiriendo a otras obras como "Los detectives salvajes" y "Nocturno de Chile." El tema de memoria es un punto de enfoque en el análisis en relación a los movimientos juveniles latinoamericanos de los años 60 y 70 y las dictaduras que los persiguieron.

This article argues that, at present, there has been a loss of the "map" of identity references of Latin American literatura, which has been blurred national borders, resulting in the breakdown of a model of a writer and a restructuring of his role in society. For this reason, the author proposes that the study of the "floating territories" of this new literary cartography is not easy to place on the "flowchart" of the classical tradition of Latin American literature, which uis accustomed to divide by periods and countries, regardless of the "trans-territoriality" that current narrative presents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo ofrece la reflexión del autor sobre los estudios de teoría y crítica literaria en América Latina y en respuesta al artículo "Estudios latinoamericanos y nueva dependencia cultural (apuntes para una discusión)" de Nelson Osorio, publicado en el número 66 (2007) de la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. El autor considera la independencia intelectual en los estudios latinoamericanos de literatura y la construcción del diálogo intercultural.

The figure of the soldier writer in literature stories constitutes a foundational paradigm in the construction of the idea about the Latin-American intellectual. Such paradigm is the object of a dynamic that we named the circle of metamorphosis, which evidences the process that begins with the soldier writer in battle —represented by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada— and ends with the hero writer as a constructor of public opinion and narrator of national history. All these images take part in the construction of national identity and in the ideal of the Latin-American intellectual linked to the battle and performance characteristics of Emancipation. Thus, this article aims to open the door for future discussions around the rol of literature stories inside the social and historical development of the continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]